Copts have been tortured and burned with acid in Libya because the
United States helped put jihadists in power. We did the same thing in
Egypt, and we're currently supporting jihadists in Syria. Ever get the
feeling that our leaders have absolutely no clue what they're doing?

Libya (FoxNews)--Libyan Islamists detained 48
Egyptian Christians in Benghazi last week, torturing them and using acid
to burn off tattoos of the cross, according to family members.

The Christians, who are peddlers, were arrested by Islamist Salafists in
Benghazi, who said they had Christian icons at their marketplace
stalls, according to Mideast Christian News. The men were later
reportedly freed and await deportation, but their family members back
home told the Egyptian press they were abused while held, initially on
charges of proselytizing.

“When the residents of the village told me that he was imprisoned, I
embraced his sons and told them they would not see their father again,”
Fardoos Salib, the mother of Coptic farmer Atif Kamel, told Egyptian
newspaper al-Watan. “I prayed in the church, until God responded and he
was released, as God knows our conditions.”

Activists in Libya last week posted photographs on Facebook showing the
Egyptian Copts under detention. A video later seized by police showed
the Egyptian Christians locked in a small room and guarded by bearded
Salafists. Many appeared to be cut and bruised, and all had had their
heads shaved.

The detained Copts had been tortured by their captors, who had also
shaved their heads and used acid to burn off the crosses tattooed on
their wrists, a source told Ahram Online.

Kamel told family members he was subjected to electric shocks and forced
to clean toilets, as his jailers assaulted him and mocked his religion,
according to his family. Kamel has a wife and two children in Egypt,
but went to work in a Benghazi vegetable market in order to provide for
them. (Continue Reading.)

Copts have been tortured and burned with acid in Libya because the
United States helped put jihadists in power. We did the same thing in
Egypt, and we're currently supporting jihadists in Syria. Ever get the
feeling that our leaders have absolutely no clue what they're doing?

Libya (FoxNews)--Libyan Islamists detained 48
Egyptian Christians in Benghazi last week, torturing them and using acid
to burn off tattoos of the cross, according to family members.

The Christians, who are peddlers, were arrested by Islamist Salafists in
Benghazi, who said they had Christian icons at their marketplace
stalls, according to Mideast Christian News. The men were later
reportedly freed and await deportation, but their family members back
home told the Egyptian press they were abused while held, initially on
charges of proselytizing.

“When the residents of the village told me that he was imprisoned, I
embraced his sons and told them they would not see their father again,”
Fardoos Salib, the mother of Coptic farmer Atif Kamel, told Egyptian
newspaper al-Watan. “I prayed in the church, until God responded and he
was released, as God knows our conditions.”

Activists in Libya last week posted photographs on Facebook showing the
Egyptian Copts under detention. A video later seized by police showed
the Egyptian Christians locked in a small room and guarded by bearded
Salafists. Many appeared to be cut and bruised, and all had had their
heads shaved.

The detained Copts had been tortured by their captors, who had also
shaved their heads and used acid to burn off the crosses tattooed on
their wrists, a source told Ahram Online.

Kamel told family members he was subjected to electric shocks and forced
to clean toilets, as his jailers assaulted him and mocked his religion,
according to his family. Kamel has a wife and two children in Egypt,
but went to work in a Benghazi vegetable market in order to provide for
them. (Continue Reading.)